Functional Swift Conference

Speaker: John Gallagher

Networking with Monads

Discuss what makes a monad (bind / return)
Show how Optional and Result are monads
Discuss "Deferred" (Swift implementation of http://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/108.00.02/doc/async_core/Deferred.html)
Briefly mention monad transformers (for working with Deferred<Result<T>>)
Demo simple chat client/server that uses all of these concepts (e.g., how "connect and handshake" is relatively simple with monadic error handling)

About John

Twitter: @nerdyjkg
Github: https://github.com/jgallagher
Big Nerd Ranch Bio

Worked in HPC (high-performance computing) for several years before joining Big Nerd Ranch in mid-2013. Develop iOS apps for clients, teach iOS courses. Currently developing materials for our "Beginning iOS with Swift" bootcamp.